VIETNAM OPENS MARKETS TO EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, TRADE DEAL DOCUMENTS CONFIRM
February 1st, 2016
Details have been released explaining how the European Union’s (EU) will open up its markets to rare earths from Vietnam under a trade deal struck last August (2015), despite concerns the country is a conduit for smuggled earths from south China. The agreement has now been released (on February 1) and shows how tariffs that will be scrapped regarding industrial minerals exported and imported between Vietnam and the EU. When it was initialled, experts warned Industrial Minerals that opening the EU to Vietnamese rare earths could create an illicit route for ...
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